Indicator for the game of dominos



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

0. H. OORLISS.

INDICATOR FOR THE GAME OF DOMINOS.

.No. 301,568. PatentedJuly 8, 1884.

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(No Model) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. C. H. GORLISS.

. INDICATOR FOR THE GAME OF DOMINOS.

No. 301,568. Patented July 8, 1884.

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UNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES HARRISON OORLISS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

INDIC ATOR FOR THE GAME OF.DOM|NOS.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 301,568, dated July 8, 1884.

Application filed June 5,1883. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES HARRISON GoRLIss, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Indicators for the Game of Dominos; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a transverse section, and Fig. 3'an under side view, of the game-indicator embracing my invention. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on the line a b of Fig. In Fig. 3 the case is shown as without the bottom plate thereof, which is represented in Fig. 2 at c. Fig. 5 is a top view of the disk 0, and Fig. 6 is a top View of the partition 8, to be hereinafter explained. Fig. 7 is a View of the tooth o, as described. Fig. 8 is a view of the indicator, with a portion of the case broken away in order to more clearly show the spring a and the parts adjacent thereto.

The indicator is intended to show from time to time the number of games played and the amount gained in each by the player.

The case for containing the operative parts is shown at A, it being a cylindrical box, having projecting from and above it at its top a cylindrical hollow extension, B.

In the top d of the case, and near the edge thereof, is an opening, e, and within the case, and immediately below the said opening, is a disk, 0, having the numbers 5, 10, 15, 820., up to 100, arranged on it in a circle, and at equal spaces thereof, as shown in Fig. 5. This disk is to revolve freely on the top of a post, D, a pivot, f, of the disk being stepped in the post. The disk has projecting down from it a circular range, 9, of teeth, to engage with a pinion, h, fixed on a shaft, 2', properly supported in the case, and disposed as shown. This shaft extends out of the case at the periphery thereof, and is provided with a milled head or button, 7c. revolving it, theshaft may be turned and the disk revolved. From the disk a stud, Z, pro jects downward, and there is within the case a bell, m, and a hammer, n, therefor, whose shank is a spring and extends from the hammer-head, as represented. As the disk may be revolved so as to carry the figures 100 into By taking hold of the said head andas to draw it away from the bell, and next carried out of engagement with the hammer, to allow the spring thereof to act and throw the hammerhead against the bell. The sounding of the bell will signify that the game is finished. In some cases I dispense with the bell, its hammer, and operative stud; but it is preferable to have them to the indicator, for various reasons.

On the top of the extension B is a circular range or scale, q, of figures from O to 20, as shown, and at the center of the extension there is an arbor, 0, provided with a hand, 1), such hand being to turn with friction on the arbor, in order for the hand to be set to the zero of thescale q, as occasion may require. The said arbor 0 extends upward from the central part of a disk, 1, having twenty-one notches formed in it at its circumference, they being at equal distances apart, as shown in Fig. 4. The said disk 1' rests upon a partition, 8, extending across the extension B. Through this partition, and near its circumference, is a curved slot, 15, (see Fig. 6,) and there projects from the disk 0 a curved and inclined spring, u, provided with a tooth, 1). While the disk may be in movement to carry the divisional space of it marked 95 away from the opening 6 and to bring the divisional space marked 100 immediately underneath the said openingythe tooth 0 will, by the spring u, be forced upward through the slott into engagement with one of the notches of the disk r. The disk O continuing to revolve, the said tooth will revolve the disk 1' until the tooth may be carried against the end of the slot, which taking place, the tooth which is inclined on its advancing face, as shown in Fig. 7, will, by being borne against the said end of the slot, be forced downward out of engagement, with the disk 1", and will pass around underneath the partition. The spring supporting the tooth should have sufficient force to hold the tooth in engagement with and cause it to revolve the disk 1 while such tooth may be in the slot. As it may he sometimes desirable to have the tooth in passing the slot not revolve the disk, there is a pin, w, sus- IOO tained by a spring, :0, arranged in the extension, and to extend over, and when forced and held down will rest on,the spring a. By pressing down the pin, the spring may be depressed so as to keep the tooth out of engagement with the disk '1' while the tooth may be passing the slot in the partition.

From the above it will be seen that, as the player from time to time may gain in his play, he, by turning the milled head, can cause the disk O to be revolved to bring the number of his gains to the opening 0; also, that, on the amount gained reaching 100, the hand 1) will have been moved to the number of the next game to be played.

I claim 1. The game-indicator, or combination of the case A, provided with the slot 0 and the extension B and the slotted partition 8 thereof, with the indicating-disk 0, its spring a, and tooth o, and with the revolnble notched disk 1' and the hand p, the said extension B having the scale and the disk 0 having mechanism for revolving it, all being substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the stud Z and the bell m and the elastic hammer a thereof with the game-indicator, consisting not only of the case A, provided with the slot 0 and the extension B, but of the slotted partition .9, indicating-disk G, spring a, tooth 1;, disk 0', and hand 1), arranged and adapted substantially as and to operate as set forth.

3. The combination of the slide-pin w and its spring with the game-indicator, consisting not only of the case A, provided with the slot 0 and the extension B, but of the slotted partition s, indicatingdisk 0, spring a, tooth t, disk 9', and hand 1), all being arranged and adapted in manner and to operate substantially as set forth.

CHARLES HAIL tISON (JORLTSS.

\Vitnesses:

H. EDDY,

E. B. PRATT. 

